Cheryl I. Harris is an American legal scholar and critical race theorist. She is a professor of

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and

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at the

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. Harris is widely known for "Whiteness as Property", published in the June 1993 edition of the ''

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''. In the paper, Harris describes the white racial identity and the value it confers in a slave society. Harris is also the mother of American rapper, songwriter and record producer Earl Sweatshirt.

Education

Harris received her first degree from

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in 1973 and her J.D. degree from the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in 1978.

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